#6849 added a system for single-frame decal rendering.
This could be used to create a type of particle that is spawned as a particle, moves as a particle, but is actually rendered as a decal if another model is nearby, projecting onto its hull.
This is a possibly interesting approach to deal with effects that should crawl along hulls.
I have some ideas for how to do this, and it certainly would need the final phase of the particle rework (access of particles to the effect that spawned them, as described in #6465), but it shouldn't be too hard.
#6849 added a system for single-frame decal rendering.
This could be used to create a type of particle that is spawned as a particle, moves as a particle, but is actually rendered as a decal if another model is nearby, projecting onto its hull.
This is a possibly interesting approach to deal with effects that should crawl along hulls.
I have some ideas for how to do this, and it certainly would need the final phase of the particle rework (access of particles to the effect that spawned them, as described in #6465), but it shouldn't be too hard.